Richard Dawkins once said he thought that Darwin’s theory of evolution wasn’t a problem for sophisticated theologians that it was the ordinary religious person who knew just how much damage Darwin did to the idea […]

I’m going to subject but one religious claim to a little scrutiny. It’s one I recently heard. This can be taken away way you like, but it should serve as an explanation for why some (so called) atheists can appear […]

I mean, what’s going on? Ryanair charged me (and a female friend) £19 each for a flight from Bristol to Dublin and Irish Rail charged us (roughly) £40 each for a return to Tralee. I have no idea how these […]

Like most gun owners, I understand the ethical importance of guns and cannot honestly wish for a world without them. I suspect that sentiment will shock many readers. Wouldn’t any decent person wish for a world […]

I wrote recently about a woman I know who told me she and her husband have encounters with single males. I immediately thought this was a disgusting arrangement. Though I was unsure exactly why I was disgusted I […]

The following is the problem of political correctnes condensed into one person – Ben Affleck. Watch as Sam Harris tries to explain, over and over again to Affleck, that criticising ideas in a book is not the same […]

I’ve been posting about the insane and delusional journalism which followed the Paris murders. I’ve mentioned the feeble words of Max Hastings, Piers Morgan and Mehdi Hasan – all of whom have refused to believe […]

Peter Hitchens has mentioned the book “The Eleventh Day” several times and I bought and read the book on his recommendation. I have loaned my copy to a friend so can’t check the exact quotations / examples but the […]

Presuppositions are powerful things. They are powerful because a person has to accept what is presupposed in order to understand what is said. Certainly a person can reject the presupposition afterwards, and in […]

I’ll spare you some of the details, but today a woman I speak to on the bus told me about some of her and her husband’s adventures on the “swinging” scene. We know each other well enough to text now and then, […]

It’s probably right that Equality and Diversity is something worth striving for. It is true that many categories of person don’t get a fair chance in our society. There is much unfairness. For instance one thinks […]

“She would be beautiful, but that her eyes seem to have no ray of life; they almost seem to lack the power of sight. Her gait is curiously measured, as though her every movement were produced by some mechanism […]

i recently learned of US Global Mail that ships your mail to you if you have been relocated. It also gives you a US address if you want items shipped to you but they won't ship overseas. Has anyone used this before?